Last week, I watched Laura for maybe the twentieth time, during Turner Classic Movies’ glorious annual 31 Days of Oscar marathon. The 1944 film-noir gem is a master class in the lost trade of screenwriting and film construction. People forced…
Rolling Stone’s cover of actress Kristen Stewart made headlines last week as a perfect example of how vulgarity frequently masks incompetence in Hollywood. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay are here to discuss Hollywood trends in an…
The traditional definition of “writer’s block” is a “condition in which an author loses the ability to produce.” It once exclusively applied to the writer’s own creative slowdown. For modern conservative scribes, however, it extends to the actual obstacles that…
Despite recent claims that the Academy Awards excluded women from coveted categories — claims made by none other than #Hillary Barbie — the nominations suggest an unprecedented appreciation of films made by or for women. Sure, Barbie’s Greta Gerwig is…
“Acquiring kids” is Hollywood’s newest dystopian dream. Kristen Stewart, of the Twilight movie franchise fame, was recently featured on the February cover of Rolling Stone for an “uncensored” exclusive punctuated by frequent vulgarities and accompanied by vaguely pornographic images, including…
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television By Foster Hirsch (Knopf, 672 pages, $40) If you listen to the Left, the 1950s…
Fiscally-conscious Argentinian President Javier Milei is in the process of scrapping federal funding for the nation’s National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts, in a larger attempt to cut inflation and prioritize where money is spent — America should follow…
The dirty secret of Hollywood’s subservience to wokeness is that even the minorities it depicts are sick of it. Any group would rather be entertained like they once were — regardless of the racial representation on screen — than preached…
I don’t know whether I should be proud or ashamed to say this publicly. (Let me pause a moment to be sure I want to admit this.) (Still thinking…) (Still…) Oh, OK. What the heck. Here goes: I have never…
Country music giant Toby Keith died peacefully of stomach cancer Monday in his native Oklahoma. He was 62. He’s survived by his wife, Tricia, and three children. His family was with him at his death. Keith was a country megastar,…